Cornelius Dämmrich's plug-in for Blender and Cinema 4D called Edgy helps artists create lifelike environments and props by adding realistic damage to objects in the scene. The tool cuts damage into the edges and surfaces of a closed mesh.

The plug-in ensures a true-to-life look as it modifies the mesh itself, and the damage is visible in the silhouette at any camera distance and in any render engine.

The original mesh remains unchanged. In Cinema 4D, it becomes a child object under the Edgy generator, while in Blender, the result gets saved to a new object placed next to it.

Artists can create their own presets and reuse them. The result is cached; each damage type is written to its own selection in Cinema 4D and to its own face attribute and material slot in Blender, so it can carry a separate material. A mask also controls where damage appears, using Fields in Cinema 4D or a vertex group in Blender.

Also, check out Jesse Miettinen's "The Last of Us-like" Damage Control tool, with which you can add destruction, scattering, and grunge effects to your scenes using Blender:

You might also find useful other Blender tools that we featured recently, such as Patterned Glass Compositor from 3D Artist Bao-Thinh Dinh and Gurgen Aloian's Geometry Nodes-powered real-time collision system:

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